In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca helps her friend make rock candy and discovers some interesting shapes. They also visit The Museum of and look at a variety of rocks and minerals, identifying and describing the many 2-D and 3-D shapes that are found in these specimens. Teaching tips are also provided that discuss frame, focus and follow-up suggestions for using this video in a math lesson.

In this assessmemt, students make sailboats by mixing and matching appropriate shapes on a work mat.

In the assessment task students will identify and draw two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes by using descriptions. Students are told they are being detectives to solve mystery shapes. They will need to use the clues on their worksheets to identify the shapes and draw the shape as further evidence of knowing. An assessment task sheet and rubric are provided.

This resource is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. This document is the About the Cluster document for Cluster 5 created by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. This document should be read prior to teaching Cluster 5.

In this Khan Academy interactive, students will name shapes based on their defining and non-defining attributes.

This resource is as an assessment or task to assess students' ability to correctly name shapes regardless of their size or orientations and their ability to recognize shapes as two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

Students learn about two-axis rotations, and specifically how to rotate objects both physically and mentally about two axes. A two-axis rotation is a rotation of an object about a combination of x, y or z-axes, as opposed to a single-axis rotation, which is about a single x, y or z-axis. Students practice drawing two-axis rotations through an exercise using simple cube blocks to create shapes, and then drawing on triangle-dot paper the shapes from various x-, y- and z-axis rotation perspectives. They use the right-hand rule to explore the rotations of objects. A worksheet is provided. This activity is part of a multi-activity series towards improving spatial visualization skills. At activity end, students re-take the 12-question quiz they took in the associated lesson (before conducting four associated activities) to measure how their spatial visualizations skills improved.

This challenging problem and brainteaser gives students an opportunity to compose and decompose polygons to make rectangles.

Students love to paint and draw. Using Paint Online, students can practice their shapes. Teachers can assign certain shapes and the students will create pictures with those shapes in them.

Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify each image as unique, yet part of a group containing recognizable similarities.

Students create two identical shapes, draw and write about the new shape they made. They add another shape to the first shape they made and draw and name the shapes. A word bank is provided to assist students with names of shapes as well as an example of how to make, draw, and write about the shapes.

This task presents students with some creative geometric ways to represent the fraction one half. The goal is both to appeal to students' visual intuition while also providing a hands on activity to decide whether or not two areas are equal.

This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: recognize and visualize transformations of 2D shapes; and translate, reflect and rotate shapes, and combine these transformations. It also aims to encourage discussion on some common misconceptions about transformations.

Students learn how to create two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects by utilizing orthographic projection techniques. They build shapes using cube blocks and then draw orthographic and isometric views of those shapes—which are the side views, such as top, front, right—with no depth indicated. Then working in pairs, one blindfolded partner describes a shape by feel alone as the other partner draws what is described. A worksheet is provided. This activity is part of a multi-activity series towards improving spatial visualization skills.

In this scavenger hunt games students are given the task of finding and identifying real-world shapes in their environment.

In this "word search" style puzzle students practice identifying sequences of shapes.

Students are introduced to brainstorming and the design process in problem solving as it relates to engineering. They perform an activity to develop and understand problem solving with an emphasis on learning from history. Using only paper, straws, tape and paper clips, they create structures that can support the weight of at least one textbook. In their first attempts to build the structures, they build whatever comes to mind. For the second trial, they examine examples of successful buildings from history and try again.

Students use rubber bands to make different shapes on their geoboard. Next, they choose one the of the shapes they have made and draw it on geoboard paper. Lastly, students label and describe their shape.